Created attachment 599840 [details] bt output Description of problem: If I try to see all installed modules in python help, the interpreter hangs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pygtk2-2.24.0-4.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. open python 2. type help() 3. type modules Actual results: python hangs. Expected results: Supposed to show us all installed modules. Additional info: While talking about the issue in #fedora-desktop, halfline suggested to try $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so python and after that if I try to view the installed modules I get teh following $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so python Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 30 2012, 21:18:11) [GCC 4.7.0 20120416 (Red Hat 4.7.0-2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> help() Welcome to Python 2.7! This is the online help utility. If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out the tutorial on the Internet at http://docs.python.org/tutorial/. Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing Python programs and using Python modules. To quit this help utility and return to the interpreter, just type "quit". To get a list of available modules, keywords, or topics, type "modules", "keywords", or "topics". Each module also comes with a one-line summary of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given word such as "spam", type "modules spam". help> modules Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules... dm.c: 1693: not running as root returning empty list ** (process:10626): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GMountMountFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' ** (process:10626): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GDriveStartFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' ** (process:10626): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GSocketMsgFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module" /usr/lib64/python2.7/pkgutil.py:110: UserWarning: libevent version mismatch: system version is '2.0.18-stable' but this gevent is compiled against '2.0.14-stable' __import__(name) ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject) Use bootstrap.py and buildout to create executable I am also attaching bt output from the first try (got it from gdb)
Created attachment 599842 [details] IRC log of the discussion Attaching the IRC log discussion on the topic.
Created attachment 599847 [details] LD_DEBUG=all python Attaching LD_DEBUG=all python output
Created attachment 599852 [details] Log from a fresh Fedora installation This is output from a fresh F17 installation
Changing the component to Python to track the actual development in python. Will file indivitual bugs for each packages which are causing the issue.
To summarize: "help> modules" tries to import every Python module on the system, so that it can print metadata about them. These imports leads to a chain of dynamic loading in which the process tries to import parts of both gtk2 and gtk3 stacks, and it hangs initializing one of gtk stacks (presumably the second stack). Doing so isn't supported, but clearly Python shouldn't hang like this. Suggested improvements: * somehow detect when both gtk2 and gtk3 components are attempted to be loaded, and trigger a runtime error that can propagate back up as an exception (since there may be other Python code out there that tries to import things that would cause both stacks to be loaded). Is there a way of doing this within the gtk stack? (or maybe easier to do in pygobject/pygtk? though that wouldn't cover the case where a 3rd-party module has indirectly caused a gtk stack to be dynamically linked into the process). * reimplement pydoc so that each module is loaded in a subprocess, sandboxing the python process against issues like this. We've had no end of issues over the years with buggy modules breaking the help functionality. (IIRC the keyword search works in a similar way, so this would help with that). Would be a non-trivial path to Python's Lib/pydoc.py
With more debugging I gathered the following information : import clutter -- hangs, package -- pyclutter-1.3.2-10.fc17.x86_64 import gnomedvb -- hangs, package -- gnome-dvb-daemon-0.2.8-1.fc17.x86_64 import rst2pdf.tests -- python interpreter exists, package -- rst2pdf-0.92-1.fc17.noarch.rpm It also prints "Use bootstrap.py and buildout to create executable" before exiting. import liveusb -- python interpreter exists, package -- liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc17.noarch Line number 52 in liveusb/__init__.py , doing a sys.exit(1) if it is non-root user I also had to patch pkgutil.py after removing all the above mention packages to make modules command work. http://kushal.fedorapeople.org/pkgutil.patch One can use the following code to find out which module is causing trouble: import pkgutil for x,y,z in pkgutil.walk_packages(): print x,y,z
Created attachment 600062 [details] patch for pkgutil
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843416 might give some more info, I could generate some backtrace with abrt
(In reply to comment #6) > import liveusb -- python interpreter exists, package -- > liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc17.noarch > Line number 52 in liveusb/__init__.py , doing a sys.exit(1) if it is > non-root user I just fixed this issue upstream (Bug #842878)
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